Is Meta AI safe to use?

Meta AI integrates 4 third-party SDKs for infrastructure. It collects data linked to your identity including Health & Fitness, Purchases, Financial Info, and Location and 11 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Meta AI need?

Meta AI requests 17 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Motion & Fitness, HealthKit (Read), HealthKit (Write), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Reminders, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Local Network, and Apple Music.

How many SDKs does Meta AI have?

Meta AI integrates 4 third-party SDKs. 4 for infrastructure. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does Meta AI access your location?

Yes. Meta AI requests location access. The developer states: "Location access is required to discover and connect to your glasses on Wi-Fi networks and help some location features work.".

Does Meta AI access your camera or microphone?

Meta AI requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you save to your camera roll, and enables other features for photos and videos". Microphone access is for "This allows you to talk to Meta AI and ask questions using your voice". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Meta AI access your contacts?

Yes. Meta AI requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Meta AI will need access to make calls and send texts.".

Does Meta AI run in the background?

Yes. Meta AI registers 7 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Meta AI?

Other photo & video apps include ARTA , AI Catch , Airbrush , Body Tune Editor , OldRoll , and Edits . Each app takes a different approach to photo & video and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Meta AI safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Meta AI links 15 categories of your data to your identity, including health & fitness, purchases, financial info and location. It is owned by Meta, an advertising company, so that data is available to Meta. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoHeavy

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you15 types · a lot

typical photo & video: 2 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Meta AI links 15 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Meta AI ties to your identity.

Health & FitnessPurchasesFinancial InfoLocationContact InfoContactsUser ContentSearch HistoryBrowsing HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataSensitive InfoDiagnosticsSurroundingsOther Data

Who else is inside

Owned by Meta.

Meta AI carries no third-party trackers, but that is not the reassurance it sounds like. It is built by Meta, an advertising company, which builds its tracking in-house. The 15 categories of data it collects (above) flow to Meta directly, no outside SDK required.

How it compares

Where it sits among photo & video.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one photo & video app. Meta AI sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 4 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

4standard libraries

0 of the 4 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Standard libraries4 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v266.0.0, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 102 photo & video in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 2.